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Yeah, I wonder what happened. I'm not a MMO player, but I know a few who were who thought some of the ideas they were trying to do could be really good if they panned out.

I think killing Raedric in favor of Kolsc is a pretty good example of a "good" decision coming back to haunt you. I mean, arguably the best outcome for Gilded Vale is siding with Raedric to kill Kolsc. Doesn't sparing Wirtan also come back to bite you in the ass later?

Point is the end isn't directly important to whether there is a God/gods/goddesses or not. The Engwithans found no evidence of god - but absences of evidence isn't evidence of absence. For all the player knows, there actually ARE gods out there beyond what the Engwithan's created. The Engwithans decided that no proof of god meant there was no god and that unless there were gods there would be eternal fighting between the people of Eora. And so they made entities with powers beyond those of mortals, to manifest and prove the gods existed and who they were. To order even chaos by putting it in a box attached to relevant gods. The resolution of the game is only regarding the discovery that the current beings worshiped by many on Eora are Engwithan creations (and as an aside, there is the debate whether that is still sufficient to consider them gods). Nothing in the game establishes that there aren't gods other than the Engwithan one, and so it could be that there is some distant pantheon in the setting.

Pretty much. Stats drive combat, player drives narrative. I'd argue "An RPG is a game where stats drive conflict resolution and where the narrative provides, and is reactive to, player choice" personally. But then again what I think of as an RPG in video game wouldn't cut the muster in the P&P world.

They wed military men so they can sit at home collecting on a fat check of military benefits. Poor soldiers! Tricked into wedding leggy blondes! If only I'd known, I would have listened to the military recruiters more.

Interesting, I'd never have connected the actor for the ads with his earlier roles. Actor Mark Goddard has a similar story about moving to Hollywood and not wanting to lose a job overstated his horse-handling ability which IIRC led to him being unable to stop and riding out of shot until someone could stop the horse.

We're hurtling towards a point where our entire civilization as we know it is going to collapse in a few decades. I get it, you're not concerned, you'll be dead by then, but could you please not mischaracterize the irresponsibility that is probably going to cost thousands, if not millions of lives in the future as "disagreeing with the Federal Government"? It is not illegal to be "wrong" in your beliefs. In the 1970s the media pushed that a new Ice Age was coming (because of a 30 year cooling trend). This in spite of the fact that most scientists were predicting a warming trend and not a new Ice Age. Neither the media nor the scientists were charged by the DOJ at the time. That said the question in the posted video seems to be pointed towards a suggestion of a RICO style conspiracy by Energy Companies to mislead and endanger the public ala "Big Tobacco", which isn't 100% analogous to being prosecuted for being "wrong" either.

Liked the return of SHIELD too. Exciting episode all around, I thought.

Unlike the FF remake, though, the KOTOR one isn't an official remake but a "mod" by fans.

The Constitution has provisions for how you change it, so that's not really applicable. I think - and GD can correct me if I'm wrong - that any change to the Constitution needs to come from the method the Constitution provides for change. Not because politicians or courts want to ignore the limits of their power. In this parallel universe, Bruce got all the bimbos, that's why we're tlaking to him. ...so cold and lonely....

Yeah, I admit part of why I didn't see it when it came out was that I was afraid the film was going to be preachy as mentioned. The trailers didn't make it clear that it wasn't, either, and that made me really nervous. Its not a perfect film - but it is fun and I hope it eventually finds its audience.

"The system" isn't fixable by the public at large - they have little to no say in how the Republican or Democratic party works. The issue isn't about the actual electoral system (wonky as it is) but a peculiarity of the Democratic Party nomination system ran by the party itself. Only the big wigs in the party can fix that. Hillary, being a big wig who could win because of it, is unlikely to see a reason to change it. I'd imagine that most people who are running for the job - even seasoned politicians - don't really understand what they're getting into, so it's all good. In theory those Constitutional checks and balances are supposed to keep even the worst candidate from being able to run things into the ground. If they're allowed to work the way they're supposed to. Exactly my point right here! The constitution of the Unites States specifically FORBIDS the Federal Government from interfering with the governance of the states except in the execution of the responsibilities assigned to the Federal Government by the Constitution. Social things like gay marriage is not among those. That he thinks he can is a problem! That he does so and gets away with it is a bigger problem! This ship sailed when the states allowed themselves to be ransomed so they could keep getting federal funds if and only if they instituted things like seat belt laws*, IMO. It set the stage (again IMO) for the Federal Government to feel that by hook or by crook it could force the states to do what it wanted. And most of the states went "we need this money" and went for it. *This shouldn't be taken as some sort of statement that I'm against seat belt laws. Always buckle up, mmmkay?

I played it a bit with a friend, and even then I've found it to be extremely unenjoyable. It's one of the games where I really thought not even a price tag of 2€ is worth it. I liked it single player when it was just Zombies. But then they added superzombie types (exploding zombies?) late in the first area and the second area (or second and third?) and it just lost all appeal to me.

Can't say that I've enjoyed much he's put out since at least LOEG: Black Dossier (which was really the first thing he'd done I'd read I didn't enjoy). Not sure I'd say he lost it as much as he's decided to go in creative directions that I'm not interested in following him to.

Having seen both films, I can say that neither film is like the other. Personally I liked Ex Machina but it tickled my inner thriller viewer - trying to figure out who was playing who. Recently I've seen: GODS OF EGYPT (2016): The film reminds me a lot of the adventure films of the 60s and 70s (primarily, those SINBAD films of Harryahusen). The trailers did a poor job of explaining the story to the audience and the "controversy" over the casting assured this wouldn't find its audience. But its a fun popcorn flick; and old style family adventure fantasy of good proportion. (To make an aside about the controversy, the film is clearly shown to be an alternate universe - Earth is a flat disc and Ra's barge is indeed the sun. To complain the film doesn't reflect the real world is to miss the point that it isn't the real world anymore than LORD OF THE RINGS is really set in Europe). ZOOTOPIA (2016): Animated crime mystery; I liked the characters and the fact that they played honest with the mystery part, scattering real clues for the observant viewer to figure out who was behind everything. TOMORROWLAND (2016): I was worried that the film would be preachy about the bad-old-presentday and was happy it didn't go there. Its a fun adventure film that manages to be fun most of the time, serious when needed and yet without gratuitous grimness.

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/81036-the-general-firearms-thread/?hl=firearms ?

That was "Dark Corners of the Earth". Another great Lovecraftian inspired extravaganza. But Bethesda was not the publisher I think. Developer was the extinct Horrorsoft (Elvira mistress of the dark, Simon the Sorcerer, etc). Too bad they cancelled its sequel: Destiny's end. Headfirst, which as I understand it, was a second company setup by the Adventuresoft people to do non-Adventure games did Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. The company had financial difficulties due to the long production cycle, some payment dispute with Bethesda, and I think some expected funding didn't happen. Ultimately this took out the second Cthulhu game and their Deadlands RPG when the company was shuttered and liquidated. But I think Adventuresoft still exists.

Outland was more or less a restaging of High Noon in space

the departed is an excellent entry. but airplane were a parody o' a genre o' films. is kinda like not another teen movie. airplane weren't a remake o' a particular film. HA! Good Fun! AIRPLANE! actually uses much of the script of the 1957 film ZERO HOUR! I'd agree classing it as a remake would still be difficult. Ug, no. They'd want to improve on Robby the Robot and that's a fools errand, IMO. Personally I thought HOUSE OF WAX was a good remake of MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM. Hitch****'s THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH is a good remake of Hitch****'s THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH...

I'd be curious for the source for that quote; I'm pretty sure that its part of attempts to associate Sanger with an article written in 1933 in Birth Control Review that shares similarities with this quote, the problem is that Sanger didn't write it, nor was she quoted in it (and that exact line doesn't match). When opening a clinic in Harlem, she had African-American doctors on the board and sought the support (and received it) of W.E.B. Du Bois. She took great pains when working with a project to deliver birth control to poor African-Americans to make sure that it was understood that this wasn't a "sterilization" campaign. Reportedly she wouldn't tolerate anyone refusing to work across "race lines" and received great praise from Martin Luther King in 1966. If you want to criticize Sanger, I think it'd be easier to do so for her support of negative eugenics.

I don't have any problem with the cast. And since the original Ghostbusters script involved alternate dimensions and the Ghostbusters traveling to different worlds, I have no issue accepting this movie as a parallel universe to the original. Overall I liked the trailer.

Its an interesting and curious question. If we were strictly talking literature I'd argue that a professional-style translation would be the only way to go. In that medium language is the only important thing. When we start looking at visual narrative media (film, television) you can get by on powerful images and a so-so translation. With games I think a lot of it boils down to a similar thing, although substitute "gameplay" for powerful images. The history of video games is littered with poor translations (I've played a few games translated to English so poorly, I'm still not 100% sure I understand what happened in those games). But the gameplay was so fun so I still played it. I'm sure most of us have similar stories where it didn't matter so much what was said as long as there was loose understanding and some fun gameplay. With that said the make or break will end up being based on how strong the narrative is to the gameplay. I can't imagine Planescape: Torment working well in a non-English language without a strong translation - too much of what makes the game work could be lost. Skimming the reddit post you link to, I see you're not really in a position to pay for a translation. I also notice you're concerned with reaching an audience, but I don't see why you think you can't reach an audience with a Russian language release - would no one in Russian-speaking areas be interested in the game? It may not lead to world-wide acclaim, but you would be putting something back into the world, as you say to release it in Russian only. Baring getting some free collaboration (perhaps you could entice participation with discrete screenshots of the game? In my experience lurking around the edges of modding communities, people seem more willing to pitch in on a project they can "see" then one that they can't) or doing some form of crowdfunding to pay for a translation, I think releasing in Russian is your best bet provided there is an audience there - you're still getting the results of your hard work in front of people, its just not an international audience. That's my 2¢ as someone not involved in making games in any way, shape or form.

Ventrue dude died in a car crash I think. Since he was the main character they didn't bother. At least thats what I heard Mark Frankel died in a motercycle accident. Since he was the one universally agreed positive of the show, and the producers felt they couldn't replace him or that character, it was decided not to continue, IIRC.

Ivanka's 35 in October, so in theory she could be VP.

Resident Evil 4, 5, 6 coming to PS4 and XBone I'd love a remake of the Outbreak series. Just sayin'.